10-22-2019, 10:05 AM
In answering your questions:
1) Creation is not a random act of nature. Then entire universe had a beginning with something being created out of nothing. The creative agent that made that happen was God. As part of His creation we too are not the result of random evolution. We are created beings, bearing His image, with a divinely ordained purpose in relationship with the rest of creation.
2) God is all powerful; He speaks and things happen. And as Kamm said above, He is loving and His creation was initially "good".
3) Humanity is created in God's image. We were created to be in a relationship with Him. We are God's ambassadors in this world with the task of caring for His creation. Humanity was also created male and female with the command to bear children. We are created male or female and don't get to choose our gender. (God also doesn't make mistakes putting a female in a man's body or male in a female body) We also are designed for relationships with the other sex; not male/male or female/female. Of course this is all against our current culture with the exception of being caretakers for the world we live in.
4)We should be responsible stewards of the world we live. This is one of the few areas our current culture has correct. We should be responsible with the planet's resources, environment, plant and animal life. We should also acknowledge God as our creator and seek a relationship with Him, learning more about Him and our purpose.
In response to Kamm and the Babylonian description of creation:
Much of early Genesis (not just creation, at least through the flood account and possibly through the tower of Babel) can be viewed as a polemic against the Babylonian narrative
1) Creation is not a random act of nature. Then entire universe had a beginning with something being created out of nothing. The creative agent that made that happen was God. As part of His creation we too are not the result of random evolution. We are created beings, bearing His image, with a divinely ordained purpose in relationship with the rest of creation.
2) God is all powerful; He speaks and things happen. And as Kamm said above, He is loving and His creation was initially "good".
3) Humanity is created in God's image. We were created to be in a relationship with Him. We are God's ambassadors in this world with the task of caring for His creation. Humanity was also created male and female with the command to bear children. We are created male or female and don't get to choose our gender. (God also doesn't make mistakes putting a female in a man's body or male in a female body) We also are designed for relationships with the other sex; not male/male or female/female. Of course this is all against our current culture with the exception of being caretakers for the world we live in.
4)We should be responsible stewards of the world we live. This is one of the few areas our current culture has correct. We should be responsible with the planet's resources, environment, plant and animal life. We should also acknowledge God as our creator and seek a relationship with Him, learning more about Him and our purpose.
In response to Kamm and the Babylonian description of creation:
Much of early Genesis (not just creation, at least through the flood account and possibly through the tower of Babel) can be viewed as a polemic against the Babylonian narrative